Re: AMD weighs in on HD versus 4K

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On Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:52:01 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
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Larger sticks default to EX-FAT instead of FAT32, when it is possible to
format them as FAT32. They come that way, and Microsoft's format program
won't even give you the option of FAT32 at larger sizes.

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Heheh. I bounced against this one hard when trying to update my
Windows98 computer to add a 300GB hard-drive. I'd remembered about
BIOS and FDISK limitations, but forgot that even on modern machines,
FORMAT wouldn't do more than a 32GB FAT32 drive.
(and EX-FAT isn't really a viable option for Windows98; there is a 3rd
party driver, but its not really ready-for-market yet)
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The limitation in Microsoft's format program is artificial; the
programmer had to pick /some/ limit and -at the time- 32GB seemed so
impossibly huge that it didn't seem to matter. Microsoft never updated
the program ... probably in part because they wanted to push people to
NTFS (less for control --since unlike FAT, NTFS isn't patented-- but
because FAT is such a primative and fault-intolerant file-system they
wanted people to stop using it ASAP to make Windows look less terrible
:-)

Making MS Windows users change file systems to make windows look less
bad, is a bit like forcing Yugo drivers to change the brand of tires
they use to make the car less horrible.

Any partition edit program or 3rd party formatter, however, will let you
do this.

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Although it probably won't matter as much with a hard-drive mostly
used for movies and such, cluster-sizes for FAT32 drives past 32GB
becomes problematic too. If your device is -as I believe you
indicated- cable of reading a 2TB HDD, then it probably supports EXFAT
(or possibly other file systems as well). So just format your 1TB
stick with the appropriate file-system (e.g., not FAT32) so you get
full capacity (931gB) and you should be good to go. Even Windows will
manage that ;-)

The device is a DVD/Blueray player.
The 1TB stick is exFAT and it cannot see it.
The 2TB external USB jack HDD is formatted NTFS.

I think the reason the player does not see exFAT is because it's a
slightly older player (It works, why change it?) and ...

exFAT was proprietary until 28 August 2019, when Microsoft published its
specification.
So unlikely to have been adopted by electronics makers other than USB
stick makers prior to the publishing and maybe not even then.

It's an LG BP350, and since there are reviews of it going back to at
least 2015, it's hardly surprising it doesn't support MS's at_the_time
proprietary format.

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